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Josef Sipek
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Josef Sipek writes Josef “Jeff” Sipek's Blahg, a personal blog at blahg.josefsipek.net about systems and programming. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Unleashed: The Birth (and Death) of an Operating System Fork”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread about choosing a coding font. The only comment is a fontconfig tip for disabling ligatures in Cascadia Code, and it does not judge the linked writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Josef “Jeff” Sipek's Blahg
Most-linked posts?
- Unleashed: The Birth (and Death) of an Operating System Fork3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-23
What Hacker News says?
No need to rely on app-specific configs. You can disable it globally in your fontconfig. For example, this disables ligatures in the Cascadia Code font: <match target="font"> <test name="family" compare="eq" ignore-blanks="true"> <string>Cascadia Code</string> </test> <edit name="fontfeatures" mode="append"> <string>liga off</string> <string>dlig off</string> </edit> </match> Here is someone disabling ligatures for…
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on “CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font”Submitted Rust pointers for C programmers as a story · 285 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unleashed: The Birth (and Death) of an Operating System Fork as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Pointers for C Programmers (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building FreeBSD Binary Packages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Birth (and Death) of an Operating System Fork as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust pointers for C programmers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern Mercurial – Phases as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tail Call Optimization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unleashed: The Birth (and Death) of an Operating System Fork (2020) as a story · 1 points
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